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g. Click Show all locations.
h. Under Summary of selected locations, highlight each Included Location listed, which will automatically
take you to the indexed location.
i. Under Change selected locations, uncheck the boxes next to each indexed location.
9. Turn off User Account Control.
a. Click Start.
b. Select Control panel.
c. Click User Accounts and Family Safety.
d. Click User Accounts.
e. Click Turn User Account Control on or off.
f. Uncheck the box next to Use User Account Control to help protect your computer.
g. Click restart now.
10. Set the test resolution.
a. Right-click on the desktop.
b. Select Personalize.
c. Click Display Settings.
d. Set the resolution to 1,280 x 1,024.
e. Click OK.
11. Set the following Power Management settings.
a. Click Start.
b. Select Control Panel.
c. Select Appearance and Personalization.
d. Under Personalization, click Change screen saver.
e. From the Screen saver drop-down menu, select None.
f. Click Change power settings.
g. Leave the default Balanced power scheme.
h. Click Change plan settings.
i. From the Turn off the display and Put the computer to sleep drop-down menus, select Never.
j. Click OK.
k. Click Save changes.
l. Close the Power Options window.
m. Click OK on the Screen Saver Settings.
12. Disable system notifications:
a. Click Start.
b. Select Control Panel.
c. Click Security.
d. Select Security Center.
e. From the left panel, select Change the way Security Center alerts me.
f. Select Don’t notify me and don’t display the icon.
g. Close the Windows Security Center window.
6. Run Windows Update, and download all available updates through 09/11/08.
7. Defragment the hard drive.
a. Click Start.
b. Click All Programs.
c. Click Accessories.
d. Click System Tools.
e. Click Disk Defragmenter.
f. Click Defragment now.
g. When disk defragmentation has finished, click Close.
Capturing an image of the hard drive
We used Symantec’s Ghost product to capture an exact image of the hard disk. Each time we ran a new
benchmark or test on a machine, we used the Ghost image to return that machine to the above configuration
(Windows Vista Ultimate SP1). After re-imaging, we installed the software necessary to run each test, and
rebooted. We followed this process to capture the image:
1. Insert a bootable Ghost CD.
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